One of Scotland's best-known authors is to write the words for a work being staged by Scottish Opera.

BBC: Alexander McCall Smith

"Rushdie liberated the Indian writer from propagandist stuff and self-conscious writing, " says Khushwant Singh, one of India's best-known authors.

CNN: The New Masters

Some publishers fear that one of the big technology companies now distributing e-books will compete for the industry's best-known authors, by offering advances in a bid to gain market share.

WSJ: Digital Self-Publishing Shakes Up Traditional Book Industry

Some of the best-known conspiracy authors are lawyers by training, but it is a wide-open field.

WSJ: JFK Assassination Conspiracy Theories Sell Lots of Books

In two days of addresses by U.S. Congressmen, members of the European Parliament and the U.K. House of Lords, prominent First Amendment experts in academia and the legal profession, investigative journalists, best-selling authors and nationally-known talk radio hosts, a compelling record was amassed showing that foundational liberties in the West are indeed imperiled.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

Established in 1969, the Man Booker is the best-known fiction prize for English-language authors from Commonwealth countries and Ireland.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS